The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-23
CURRENT EVENTS.

The pineapple crop in Florida this year win
| be the largest ever known.
Vermont farmers are engaging help at $i5
10 $40 month and board.
The severe winter In Montana caused a loss
Of $40, 000, 900 worth OF live stock.
New York has saloon for every twenty
four registered voters In the city.
In Key West, Fla, the other night rat
ate the tail of a mule and escaped alive.
1t costs exactly sl3SI5 to put ton Of coal
on the cars at the mines In Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Grundy SAYS boys now to great extent
take the place OF men In New York society.
A Bennington VT. man handles nearly
twenty thousand pounds Of spruce gum every
rear.
The Nevada senate has passed bill s.!thor-
zing the establishment OF a lottery In that
state.
There have been but five snow-storms in
San Francisco, Cal, during the past forty
gears.
An expedition will shortly be sent out by
Australia to test the whale fishery In the Ant
arctic.
1t is estimated that between $4,000 and
S2O,O)0 changed hands over the result OF the
election contest In Winnipeg.
In BROOKLYN male voice choirs are rapidly
taking the place of mixed cholrs. Already
there are over thirty in the city.
There recently arrived at Palatka, Fla,
from Maine, two Indians who had made the
ocean trip in small birch canoe.
A matrimonial engagement was made
recently in New York city on condition that
the youth should give up his club.
In Arizona 'to sling United States with
neatness aud Dispatch means to talk with
some regard for grammatical correctness
It has recently been discovered that the
bark of the cotton-pant root contains what
promises to be an available colorlng manner.
A committee recently appointed by the
Maine legislature recommends that the state
furnish to Its convcts larger variety of work
Three boys at Connellsvlle, N. Y, pour
ed carbon oil over dog and then set fire to
The animal. They have been bonnd over for
court
Chesley, Canada, has a clergyman who
genlzed chess club of that village as shell
club.n
From pair Of ordinary white rabbits, Dan
lei Miller, of Dauphln county. Pennsylvania,
raised seventy young ones within twelve
months.
The English style Of penmanshlp has been
laid aside by the fashionable women OF New
York who are learning the small Italian style
practiced by their grandmothers
Two fine swans were killed IN the tules east
c Woodland, Cal, a few days ago. The
handsome birds weighed nearly thirty pounds
apiece, and were fine specimens.
Sixty-three feet Of petition bearing the name
Of nearly every resident Of the place, was for
warded from Haley Idaho, last week, praying
hat the territory of Idaho be annexed to Ne
,ada.
A joint agreement is to be made between
the governments OF South Australia, Victoria,
and New South Wales for the utilization OF
the nood.waters of the Murray river for irri-
cation.
There was recently removed from the belfry
Of the Unitarian church at Weston, Mass, n
bell that was made In 1901 In n foundry estab-
llshed few years before by the famous Paul
Revere.
Two gangs OF Mexican thieves, including
twelve women and twelve men, were jailed by
the police at San Antonio Texas, the other
night II was the biggest haul OF burglars
ever made in that city.
A cheap cab system Il about TO be establish
ed in New York city by company Of English
capitalists. The company will be Incorporated
and will bind itself to carry passengers at the
ate of % cents mile.
In Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, 1t is
common thing TO encounter turkeys being
driven 10 market IN droves Ike csttle-gencr-
ally about hundred, but sometimes as many
as two hundred In drove
The word "toboggan" is said TO be eltnes
from the Ollbwa word "odaban," which means
A sled or any vehicle on which anything is
lrawn, or from the verb 'odabanlgo," which
means II ride in n sleigh"
There has Just died in Beverly township,
Canada, a venerable wild goose. Thirty years
ago Morris Shetland bought II Of Mr.. Harris,
Of Gait who eighteen years before that
caught It. How old the goose was when cap
'urcd forty-elght years ago, no one knows.
The connection between phrenology ana
farm work has been demonstrated by an Ohio
farmer who has sent a demand TO Castle
Garden for farm boy, "a Protestant Irish
boy from ~ TO IA years old, and wish him
taken to phrenologist to have his head felt"
One Of the passengers on snow-bound
Northern Pacific train in Montana suddenly
Jumped from the coach with yell and start
ed up the side of the mountain in the face OF
a driving storm. He was pursued, and after a